All Grocery articles – Page 686
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Analysis
Roll with it
Paper, energy, landfill and even water savings are being made at Sainsbury’s as it rolls out double-sided till receipt printers, finds Joanna Perry
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Opinion
Don’t discount the discounters
Michael and Vicky are a couple in their early 30s. They have one child, both have secure, professional jobs, are comfortably off and own their own home in a nice south London suburb. They live five minutes from one of Sainsbury’s flagship stores. But they choose to drive past it ...
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Opinion
Retailers can’t afford not to go green
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ latest report, Sustainability: are consumers buying it?, highlights consumers’ increasing concerns about sustainability and their willingness not only to buy into the notion, but to change their behaviour.
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News
Tengelmann to switch focus to fresh in move upmarket
Supermarket chain Tengelmann is to revamp its 700 German stores to focus on fresh produce.
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News
Sainsbury's counts the cost of web crash
Sainsbury’s was back up and running this week, but the supermarket has remained tight-lipped over the “technical glitch” that forced it to suspend its grocery shopping site.
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News
Grocers’ shares tumble as shoppers embrace discounters
TNS data showing rapid market share growth by hard discounters contributed to a fall in the share prices of quoted grocers. Meanwhile, general stores slipped still further as trading difficulties – real and imagined – undermined sentiment.
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News
Obama tackles Leahy over union row
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has this week written to Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy ahead of the grocer’s AGM today, urging him to start discussions with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW).
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News
John Lewis sales down, but Waitrose robust
John Lewis Partnership posted a group sales rise of 2.7 per cent in the week to June 21. Revenues at the eponymous department stores fell 1.2 per cent, but grocery chain Waitrose reported a 5.2 per cent rise.
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News
Tesco prepares for AGM showdown
Top retailer Tesco’s fears that its AGM will be turned into a “circus” look likely to become a reality as a raft of campaigners attempt to hijack the agenda.
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News
Grocery giants launch all-out price war
Grocery giants Tesco and Asda have fired the first shots in what is likely to be an all-out price war as credit crunched consumers cut back on shopping.
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News
Cash-strapped consumers are trading down
Shoppers are less likely to treat themselves and are increasingly choosing value retailers or retailers’ own-label brands, according to an ICM poll carried out exclusively for Retail Week .
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News
Waitrose ads celebrate homegrown ‘heroes’
Waitrose has this week launched the latest instalment of its national in-store Food Heroes campaign to raise the profile of specialist British food producers.
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Opinion
Damned if you do, damned if you don't
It’s hard to know who will get the most attention at Tesco’s AGM today. It could be the chicken campaigners, the Barack Obama-supported US union or the Unite protesters presenting chief executive Sir Terry Leahy with a “golden loo”.
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News
Carrefour to rebrand French stores
Carrefour Group is to convert all its supermarket formats in France to its Carrefour and Carrefour Market fascias.
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News
M&S shareholders urged to block Rose dual role
Marks & Spencer shareholders are again being urged to vote against chief executive Sir Stuart Rose’s promotion to chairman at next month’s AGM.
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News
Obama appeals to Leahy over union recognition
Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy has been asked by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to meet with and engage with American trade unions.
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News
Qataris up Sainsbury's stake
Sainsbury’s shares soared last night on the news that the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) increased its stake in the supermarket giant to about 25.3 per cent.
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News
Wal-Mart unveils Marketside web site
US grocery giant Wal-Mart has unveiled a web site for its new-launch smaller format stores, Marketside.
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News
Grocery market to head into decline, Nielsen claims
Grocery market growth has stalled and the sector is poised to slide into decline, according to information company AC Nielsen.